that washington needs to be more vocal on it, more than the president calling in from marriage wmarth martha's vineyard saying, i'm aware of the situation in egypt. >> guys yelling at him, we're on the tee, let's go. hurry up. what are you doing over there, barack? you're on the phone again? you're up! sorry. let's go to -- >> we could go across the pond for a moment, time for the global market report. carolin roth is standing by in london. carolin? >> good morning to you, guys. we are in a bit of a holding pattern ahead of the fomc minutes and seeing european markets pulling back just a little bit. we're off by around .3% off the session lows. we did have a couple of earnings reports which will come to just a little bit. let me show you the markets one by one. the ftse definitely an underperformer, off by .75%. keep in mind about the stocks, hsbc trading today, the xetra dax is up by .25%. back to the earnings. we had two beermakers in europe report numbers and both were a little bit below expectations. but the share price performance is divergent. carlsberg in denmark up by almost .9%. again